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TIL house finches weren’t found in the eastern US until 1940 when they were illegally captured in California and brought to New York for pet shops to sell - until the owners of these shops got worried about getting busted for selling them - released them into the wild!

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wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
d4BQ TIL that Medieval monks would often complain about their jobs by writing “bitchy comments” in the margins of the manuscripts they had to copy- for example, “I am very cold,” “Oh, my hand,” and “Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake give me a drink.”
OoOoa TIL that in 2005 a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parlament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.
WkJV4 TIL that there is a law in Philippines that you can actually 'legally' kill or physically injure your spouse or the person he or she is having a sexual intercourse with when you caught them in the act while making love.
w1w1 TIL that the Superbowls are havens for sex trafficking.